Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-28
NEBRASKA.

The Nebraska City News has been enlarged.
Saunders county has a school population OF
7,644.
York's new jail is steel-lined and cost
-, 500.
The festive tramp has opened headquarters
In Blair.
Blue Springs is the latest cyclone tswn la
the state.
The Norfolk Odd Fellows have decided to
build a hall.
Fremont Is troubled with a gang Of toughs
AMI hoodlums.
A forty-acre tract near Hastings recently
sold fer $40, 900.
The new -four mill at Stella was destroyed
by Are Friday night.
The water mains In Nebraska City are to be
extended eight miles.
The report is out that the Rock Island is to
build to Grand Island.
Chicago Fork packers are preparing to erect
large houses at Omaha.
Portsmouth is talking up $50, 600 In bonds
for public improvements.
The Aurora Republican has enlarged its
shape and evil tendencies.
Valparaiso authorities have opened war on
the poker dens Of the town.
VIM. Remicke, one Of schuyler's most pro,n-
inentcitizens, died last Wednesday.
Articles of incorporation Of the Lincoln
Street railway were filed on Monday.
Omaha has been designated as a reserve
city by tie secretary Of the treasury.
Articles Of Incorporation of the Fremont
Investment company were fled on Monday
with the county clerk.
An Omaha special says the Swan Bros, the
wealthy cattle men of Wyoming, failed with
liabilities at Il 600, coo.
Belva Lockwood, late candidate for presi-
dent on the women suffrage ticket, lectured
at Lyons Sunday evening.
The Fremont Street Railway company is
organized and ready for business, and is ap-
plying to the city for a franchise.
A. j. Potter, Of O'Neil, was struck by
lightning Friday afternoon and killed. He
was proprietor Of the Potter house.
Christian G. Herald, who was serving a two
years. sentence for ~defrauding creditors, was
pardoned by the governor. His health il
very bad.
The agent OF Sell's circus says their date In
Omaha will have to be cancelled unless the
license is reduced from $500, the present
figure.
A home-rule sympathizers' meeting is to be
held at Battle Creek on the 10th inst. Hon.
John Fitzgerald, Of Lincoln, will address the
meeting.
The electric light plant at Beatrice, which
burned about three months ago, has been re-
built, and the town Is again illuminated by
arc lights.
Under a section Of an old Lincoln ordi-
nance, which the new administration has
resurrected, hotel runners will have to take
out a license.
Articles Incorporating the Commercial Pro-
tective association Of Nebraska, with head
quarters at Sterling, were filed with the secre-
tary Of state recently.
The vicinity Of Nebraska City is infested
with horsethieyes. The farmers declare If
the rascals are caught they will get a short
shritt anu a long rope.
Richard Frewen will sue the Dakota Cattle
company at the next term Of court In Dawes
county, beginning May 30, for s25, 5000 dam
ages for breach of contract.
The body Of Fred Smith, the Omaha saloon
keeper who was drowned la the Platte river,
near Valley, last April, was found yesterday
morning near Youtan, a station beyond Val
ley.
A Broken Bow baby pounded a match until
~ tnrItaI and ~ thn ltftin nna'c .lnthpc AN
fire. The mother succeeded in putting the
fire out, but both mother and child were bad
y burned.
A specimen Of brotherly love developed in
West Point last week. Charles Grumpke had
his brother arrested on the charge Of stealing
nine bushels Of potatoes, but failed to con-
Wet him.
The dispute over the boundary line of the
Vincent and Young farms in Custer county
is practically settled. Young is in his grave
and Vincent is booked for the penitentlary
fer murder In the second degree.
Tim Doran, Of Omaha, was sent to the jail
TUESDAY for thirty days, the first ten on bread
and water, for beating his wife. Mrs. Doran
was present In court and stated that her hus-
band never contributed towards the support
OF the children, and was continually coming
home drunk and beating her and them
The law passed by the last congress making
a land agency at Chadron has been inopera-
tive because Of a failure to appropriate funds
with which to start the business of the office.
business men Of Chadron have made ar
with the authorities to advance
the necessary funds, and the land Office is ex.
pected 10 be in full operation by June Is.
Three Panora, Iowa, men s topped ell nigh
at the Norfolk house, In Norfolk, and mex
morning claimed that during the night over
q hundred dollars was distracted from their
Their story was regarded as f.hy,
particularly after they left town without
making any complaint 10 the officers.
Andrew Jackson, a convict in tie p%epiten-
tisry at Lincoln, struck q fellow prisoner
named John Gleason while at work In the
foundry on Friday with a crooked iron bar
knocking him down, as he was leaving the
with a ladle Of molten iron. Gleason
covered with the melted metal and horri-
bly, burned. He was taken to the hospital
and received every attention but died on